Steve Daley

Begin with the idea that Gary Hart could get in trouble in a phone booth. It helps explain a lot. The once and current leader in the polls tracking the...

The new lords of network television continue to prosper in the casino known as Wall Street. It is understood, for example, that in less than two years CBS president Laurence...

In the journalism trade, we like a little meaning with our message. And, somehow, the more frivolous or aberrant the event, the more meaning we try to inject. Playing down...

When the history of Chicago`s locally produced television programming in the 1980s is written, probably on one sheet of paper, double-spaced, the word will be movies. And moving. Shows about...

Last Monday morning, about the time WLUP radio morning wag Jonathon Brandmeier might ordinarily be ringing up a visiting big shot with a ''celebrity wake-up call'' or chatting with sports...

WFLD-TV-Ch. 32, the Fox Broadcasting station in Chicago, got off to a stylish beginning with its nightly 7 and 11 p.m. newscasts this week. Monday`s opening-night show looked slick, professional...

The weekday shuffle in local television is about to commence, with afternoon schedules for local stations in the fall being made and programming gambles being taken. Among the network-owned stations,...

He is 50 years old this week, he`ll have more on-air television work next fall rather than less, despite rumors to the contrary, and he has never spoken up in...

Maybe it`s the heat. The anchormen and anchorwomen go on vacation, the weathermen go to the lakefront and what passes for television news in the summer takes on a hazy...

Journalism is a fence, with information going back and forth between reporters and sources, and with each party having a vested interest in the process. That`s why the Washington press...